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darn what a seethepost
if you have something stored on a single drive with no redundancy you shouldn't be surprised in the slightest when you lose it
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my epic magic rock i made no effort to back up... forgot things?
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it happens to everyone once and then they learn to keep backups
well, to these guys 2 times apparently
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This made me lose any sympathy
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Why he was sent a supposedly safe replacement from the company that failed in a month lol how is that the users fault unless you expect everyone to have 1000$s of dollars in spare ssds at one time
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A 4TB hard drive is about 75 dollars and that's way more data then a normal person is going to save. There's software that backs up all your stuff. It takes 5 to 10 minutes max to set up and run on a schedule.
This guy's job is making digital videos, he should be smart enough to backup his shit especially after losing 3TB of data once before. Everything fails eventually, storage is no exception.
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not my fricking job
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WD is selling a drive they know has a firmware issues and their patches aren't fixing it lol You can get an internal 4 tb hard drive for 75$ I would love for a year round price of 75$ for 4 TB lol Its closer to 100$ for a WD one which is the company selling faulty drives and not fixing them properly or seadisk which is also know to be unreliable
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Isn't WD and SanDisk the same NAND company now? It's just two different stickers from the same company. Just buy an SK Hynix, Samsung, or Kioxia (until the merger) NAND ssd, they tend to be less of a crapshoot.
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They're all ultimately unreliable. I'm not simping for any particular company. I do have a particular fixation on backups because I worked as a low-level IT guy for a few years, and I'd have people ranting at me about how their important work was all on just a single hard drive on their laptop that had obviously broken as if I could do anything about it besides verify that their shit was fricked. Even more frustrating was that all of these people had access to back up all of their shit on network drives that were provided by the school for fricking free, and 90 percent of people didn't use them even just for a weekly backup because "I have to log in from home". A username and password filters out a bunch of people who are supposed to be smart from otherwise nearly effortless free data protection of work that they do for a good chunk of every working week. Many of them had the fricking audacity to get mad at me about it because the best option at that point is to pay some external company to try and restore the drive and get all their data off of a broken drive.
My point is that storage is cheap. If you care about your data, you should back it up. Ideally a local backup and a backup anywhere else because shit like fires happen.
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This is one of the worst posts I have EVER seen. Delete it.
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This is why I still keep a bluray drive with me. I write anything important to a disc I stash away in a sleeve.
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I have an 8TB backup drive currently. No shame in being a digital hoarder. My point was that storage keeps getting cheaper. It's your time to shine, king (but you should also keep a backup)
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My 2TB WD SSD is pooping itself on random files and folders. I lost some combat sport highlight videos from Youtube channels that aren't around anymore...
Might be time to invest in a refurbished HDD or two.
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If your drive is failing you should get a new one, copy your data, and probably just throw the old one out. It's not going to get less failed.
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This is a brand new month old SSD failing this isnt a "you should have had a back up fail" this is a product failure. This is the kinda shit you buy to back stuff up "erm you should have bought 6 different multi hundred dollar SSDs as a back up chain! "
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When in r-slurville do you guys actually start thinking about backing up things with a bathtub distribution failure rate?
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The first replacement was just a ransom payment to prevent them from writing a hitpiece. Im sure they reached out for another replacement and were denied.
Note that they dont really go into how they were treating the drive. If youre shooting on location in the summer im betting they left it in a hot car for huge periods of time. Or maybe some similar idiocy from the people who cant think to back up any of their data. No shit it broke. No refunds
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WD admits there is a known firmware issue lol
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Sure but whats the failure rate and how many customers did it affect? This reads much more like a seethepost than legitimate journ*lism.
Skepticism is warranted based solely on the quality of the writing. I think if you broke out the numbers youd find that something else was going on here.
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At no point does the article say it was replaced under warranty.
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Neighbor what do you think a RAID array is
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You don't need SSDs for your backups. Hard drives are still the more economical storage option unless you want to pick up and physically shake your computer regularly they're good enough for basically every normal person
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This might be top notch dog shit journ*lism. Every single SSD you buy has the potential to fail. Every single one. I don't care if you pay 20 grand for 250gb hard drive, it has a chance to fail. This is the stupidest shit I've read in tech journ*lism, no wonder someone like Linus Tech Tips dominates the industry
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This is actually a valuable article for IT people. It shows job security is still going strong when someone posts this with the self-reflection of a garbage bin.
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wow this cute twink did something funny for once 👌👌😄
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If only data hoarder banned more useless posts.
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Why would datahoarder jannies lock that post? Also lol Vjeran.
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Same magazine that did the pants on head r-slurred gaming pc build.
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Just buy knockoffs on temu
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